Default Reply-To and Bcc in Mail (Moved)

This is a repost of a question I mistakenly posted on the Leopard thread.
I just finished transferring all my archived mail from several years from Netscape Mail 7.2 to OS X Mail 2.1. There are 2 features which I used in Netscape Mail that I am unable to duplicate in OS X Mail:
1. bcc a specific address other than myself
2. provide a reply-to address different than the ISP addressed used to send the mail
On the 10.5 thread, Pascal Bouvier provided an excellent suggestion, referencing the following site which had 2 potential solutions to this problem:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/01/28/adding-a-default-reply-to-address-in-mailapp /
The first suggestion involves an applescript created by Mail Team Developer Cricket which allows specification of a Bcc other than "myself" and a Reply-To address to every email by default. However, the link to this applescript - http://homepage.mac.com/cricket/Menu19.html - results in an error. Apparently, the page has been removed.
The second suggestion involves a post on macosxhints - http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=11055 - using Terminal commands to achieve the same objective. I carefully used the following Terminal command to specify the desired defaults addresses:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = "mydefaultreplytoaddress"; "Bcc" = "mydefaultbccaddress"; }'
and verified that they had been successfully entered using:
defaults read com.apple.mail UserHeaders
However, using these Terminal commands has had no effect on my outgoing mail Bcc and Reply-To addresses, even after restarting Mail, restarting OS X, etc.
Does anyone know where the Cricket script can now be found?
Alternatively, any suggestions as to why the Terminal commands are not working?
Thanks greatly for any ideas.
Bob

Hi, Robert.
One possible solution is stationery. When you save custom stationery, the visible headers and anything entered into them are saved with that stationery.
e.g. Set up a new email with the Bcc: and Reply-To: fields visible and enter the appropriate addresses into those fields, then select Save as Stationery from the File menu.
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